Two years ago, I suspended my campaign for president. For 431 days, a team of true believers brought substance and heart to a campaign that inspired millions to dream big and fight hard. #DBFH
Our organizers built a grassroots campaign. We knocked on 22 million doors, made 20 million phone calls, and sent 42 million texts to voters. We became the fastest first-time presidential campaign to have a million people donate.
Most importantly: we ran on our values, on treating people with dignity, and on putting democracy at the heart of everything we did.
And after the campaign ended, our Warren family did not whimper or whine. We kicked it into higher gear. Our team went onto Senate races, House races, campaigned for President Biden in key states, and even ran for office themselves.
As one alum said, after the campaign ended, she “had a bunch of wine, then went to help Pres. Biden win in Central Michigan.”
We all know that 2020, 2021, and 2022 have been hard. Pandemic, insurrection, impeachment, attacks on reproductive rights, voter suppression, and more. And now a devastating war in Ukraine.
These years also gave us hope: an overdue outpouring of voices speaking up for racial justice, a hard-won inauguration, and a wave of good people charging into public service to help make government work for the people.
We must not let up—and I know our Warren Democrats family won’t. Our fight now is to make the years ahead look more like hope and big, structural change for working people—and less like insurrection and oligarchy and war.
As I said thousands of times in selfie lines during the campaign: We make each other stronger. And especially in times of crisis, we must choose hope over fear. I’m proud of our campaign family for choosing to live that value every single day.
So as we continue the fight to save our democracy, remember: Choose to fight only righteous fights, because then when things get tough—and they will—you will know that there is only one option ahead of you: Nevertheless, you must persist.
That’s why we’re helping good candidates win primaries now and win general elections in November. You can get involved with that work by signing up here: ewar.ren/2022
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